Doesn't it look like blown glass? Or marbled paper? I think its all the more frightening for how beautiful it is.

Photographer: Dave Martin/AP, via Vidiot Speak.
Margaret commented that "oil spill" hardly seems adequate to describe the horror. Vidiot Speak (and others? I don't follow political blogs) refers to it as an oilcano.
And, another manatee. (You know, "oh, the humanity!" came from the original coverage of the Hindenberg disaster.)

(I cant find it there, but Dr. X gives it a "h/t", which means "hat tip," according to Blogossary.)